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Henry Clay is born
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Admitted to the Virginia Bar
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Became a member of the State House of Representatives
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Elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate
Was there to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Adair, despite being younger than the constitutional age limit of thirty years -
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Member of State House of Representatives
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Served as speaker for the State House of Representatives
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Again elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate
Was there to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Buckner Thurston -
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Elected as a Democratic Republican to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses
Resigned on January 19, 1814 -
Appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate the treaty of peace with Great Britain
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Elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth Congress
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Elected in a special election as a Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill his own vacancy
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Re-elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fifteenth and succeeding Congress
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Elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses
Resigned on March 6, 1825 -
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Unsuccessful Presidential Candidate
Of the Democratic Republican Party in 1824
Of the National Republican Party in 1832
Of the Whig Party in 1844 -
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Appointed Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams
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Elected as a National Republican to the United States Senate
Was there to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1831 -
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Reelected as a Whig in 1836
Resigned on March 31, 1842 -
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Again elected to the United States Senate
Ended with his death in Washington D.C. on June 29, 1852 -
Lay in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol